Uninstalling port that is missing on the filesystem

[Tim Visher]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Nov 19, 2009, at 17:57, Tim Visher wrote:
>
>> I used port to install transmission and then have been updating from
>> within Transmission since then.
>
> In-app auto-update is not an appropriate feature for software installed with MacPorts ("port upgrade" is the only way we want users upgrading ports). Please file a ticket for transmission requesting that its auto-update feature be disabled.

Done. http://trac.macports.org/ticket/22618

>> That means that the filesystem no
>> longer has what port thinks should be there.  I can't get it to
>> uninstall because of a `realpath` error.
>
>
> This problem will be fixed in MacPorts 1.8.2.
>
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/22001

Good to hear. :)

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